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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In 2007, after decades insisting he was innocent, Jerry Miller of Chicago was finally vindicated. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED MAN: There aren't too many people happier today than Jerry Miller. Hugs abound. (APPLA

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The war in Syria is a conflict of the social media age. Cellphones are ubiquitous among the rebels, the government, even ordinary citizens. And that means almost no bad deed goes unrecorded. As NPR's science correspondent Joe Pal

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Anger Grows Over Reports of Sex Abuse by Producer Harvey Weinstein The organization that awards Oscars for best movies is deciding what to do with Harvey Weinstein. The movie producer has been accused of sexual abuse from many women, including well-k

Leadership Failures behind Iraqi Prisoner Abuse, says US Gen

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 20 July 2007 The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights is urging the Government of Sudan to take immediate action to protect thousands of civilians in the village of Bir Dagig, located about 30 kilometers north of El Geneina

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By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 24 September 2007 Kenya is hosting Africa's first-ever conference about the sexual abuse of children, a problem that has become one of the widest-spread and most troubling issues on the continent. Nick Wadhams has the story fo

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Crown Heights' Seeks To Do Justice To A Saga Of Wrongful Conviction

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: How far you'd go to help a friend is one of those classic existential dilemmas. And that question is at the heart of a new film called Crown Heights, which is out this weekend. As NPR's Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi reports, the film tell

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VOA双语新闻 Iraq Abuse Investigation

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Alex Belida Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has apologized to Iraqi prisoners abused by U.S. soldiers and accepted full responsibility for the scandal surrounding the mistreatment. Mr. Rumsfeld tell

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Abuse, Overuse of Antibiotics Creates Public Health Crisis

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Experts call for child abuse crime after kindergarten scandals

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NOEL KING, HOST: Here in the U.S., the Catholic Church has been in turmoil. In Pennsylvania, a grand jury report released this summer laid out decades of misconduct and cover-ups. More than 300 priests across the state were implicated. Despite all of

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A slew of high-profile acquittals of wrongly convicted defendants made headlines in 2015. And according to the judicial reform report by the Supreme People's Court, 23 wrongful verdicts have been corrected since the reform was implemented in 2013. Wh